About this title: This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2008-09-23
ISBN-13:9781416592235ISBN:1416592237
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Edition: Softcover Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780521644792ISBN:0521644798
Description: New, Never Read, Rem. Small softcover, new, never read, rem. read more
Description: Like New. 2008-Hardcover-May contain minor shelf-wear. Otherwise, volume un-read and in "As-New" condition. -Used-Like New-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Good. 1966-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Good. 1416592237 Standard used condition ie. These are good quality new books from the publisher with a bump, shelf wear, or some sunfading to outer edges of book. Has remainder mark. read more
"This year, as a sophomore student, we had read the book "Medea" by Euripides for our first exhibition on october of 2009. This is a play that is basically about tragedy, love and conflicts. There was alot of events happening in the play, and they were a little interesting. Medea had fallen in love with the Iolcus hero, Jason, who was on the quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece, in order to take back his father's throne from his evil uncle, Pelias. Medea's reason for falling in love with Jason was because the Goddess of Beauty, Aphrodite, told her son, Eros, to shoot arrows in Medea's heart, causing Medea to fall in love. The effect of the arrows soon started, as Medea followed along with Jason on the quest to the Golden Fleece. Then things started to get bad, as Medea killed her own brother on the Argo, a ship he used to sail the seas and head to the Golden Fleece, over her love for Jason. After that was said and done, Jason had abandoned her after he accomplished his quest, due to the incident on the ship. Medea got her revenge by killing King Creon and the princess, along with her's and Jason's children, causing Jason to have more hate for her. I find this interesting because of the twists and turns in the story."
"Well the play to me was interesting it made me want to read more and more of it. It made me super interested. The play was basically about Medea getting revenge on Jason and everybody else yes including her family members. She wanted love out of Jason and he cheated on her. Well he did not cheat he left her alone. She was banned form her country because she killed her brother so then like everybody hated her. She manipulated somebody into letting her come into their country. She killed her children because of her husbands marriage, she also killed the princess. The messed up part about this revenge is that she wouldn't let her ex-husband see his dead children. She didn't let him see them because he did not take care of the kids that he had until the last minute. I rate this book as 5. i give it a 5 because it kept me motivated and interested. Other people should read it to find out what myths people actually put out their. They... well I don't know why they should read it. Maybe because it kept me interested LOL :) BUT IF U REALLY WANT TO BE INTERESTED WATCH THE MOVIE!!"
"This year as a tenth grader what we did for our first exhibition was to read Medea. Medea is about how a man named jason get help by a women named Medea that leave her home and family and kill her brother for jason. when she goes with jason to corinth she soon finds finds out that jason has left her for a younger women. when she finds out Medea wants revenge o jason so what she does is kill jason new wife and the king of corinth because he banished her and also killes her own kids because that was the only thing jason cared and love. she did all of this to get back at him for leaving her. I would say i would rate this out of ten a seven because the way the class did it was good.first we learned about greek mythology so that gave us the foundation on how things work and have a idea of what Medea was going to be about. after that we read the story as a class and that made it better because that help us understand it better. but what made it better was the play we could put a different look on how the scene or character would be. that whole time i learned new things about myself and about greek mythology thats way i rate this a seven. If next year other group of kids would have to read a story or to learn about somthing new i would recommend Medea it is a good way to get to know new people and learn somthing new. i think people would enjoy it because they might ralate to this book. i think other school should read Medea and make it a project."
"Medea is a story written by Euripides, mostly about two people named Jason and Medea. Medea was a goddess and Jason was a human but was very strong one, Jason's one goal was to take the throne away from his uncle Pelias who took that same throne away from his father. On his way to see his uncle and claim his throne he had to walk through a river, and there was a goddess Aphrodite only she changed herself into an old crone so Jason can help her cross and he did so, on the other side of the river there he found out that the old crone was Aphrodite because of Jason's troubles Aphrodite offered to help Jason through his course to become king and she did so. Once Jason saw his uncle he put Jason to get the Golden Fleece and return unharmed and from then on he will become king. Jason thought this would be very easy but the courses he would have to pass was very dangerous so he gathered up a group of people to help him and took a boat still having Aphrodite on his side guiding him through the way. During one of the courses he met a woman named Medea, now Aphrodite's son was Eros also known as cupid so he shot Medea with a bowmen arrow and at last she was in love with him that she killed her own father to have Jason pass that course. For that Jason agreed to keep Medea by his side and have her as his queen once he becomes king and to love her forever. Once Jason got back with the golden fleece he did not receive the throne because of what Medea had done to her own father, the gods turned Medea from a beautiful goddess to and ugly evil witch and from then on Jason's love turned to hate. He stood by her as he said he would but after they had two sons Jason left her for a princess to inherit her fathers throne when he passes it on of course Medea was not at all pleased with that, that she wanted to gain revenge and she did by killing his fiancé and her own two sons to get Jason made and to have regret for what he has done to Medea after everything she has done for him. This play was interesting and emotional; you can feel Medea's pain and suffering, this play brought a lot of discussion into the classroom. Everyone had there say and believe and debated it against each other. This story I can safely say in my own point of view it was the best reading I have read so far, it was a little bit challenging to read but I understood it and enjoyed reading Medea. I really enjoyed the story because it wasn't just only sad or happy it had a mixture of emotions and just for that I really enjoyed it. I believe many other students should read this because reading Medea taught me a lesson to never gain revenge against someone because what you did to that person will come back to you, just let karma handle it and that person will get what they deserve if not it was for the best. This reading can really change a lot of young kid's ideas in a problem because all they think about is how am I going to get that person back, when or where I say this story can teach them that revenge can really hurt peoples feelings and turn into a serious matter by involving a family member or even someone getting injured."
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